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Thats why I couldn't find it...it's on another site...duh,lol

Depends on the fart...sometimes Kevlar won't help you, lol.

Amen...

Let's not forget though, that the OP went out of his way to make the dramatic exit, which serves no purpose at all, other than self-gratification. No useful information was offered, no "It's been swell, I found a lot of good info here, so thanks to all those who helped out"...I dare say that the reaction would have been much different had he chosen to go about it that way. There would have been a lot more "Good luck" posts, instead of "Don't let the door hit you in the arse". Instead, it was nothing but "I couldn't get what I needed from this thing, so I'm outta here". It's flippant and dismissive. Talk to people that way, and it shouldn't surprise you when nobody wants to buy you lunch. It's not like he's the misfit kid who got beaten up at recess because nobody liked his shoes. Nobody singled him out, he singled himself out...if you invite ridicule, you don't get to cry foul when it comes your way.

I couldn't find the thread, but a while back someone posted some custom models, mixing and matching various body/pickup combos in Workbench that were A LOT closer to the Strat models from the older firmware. I didn't much care for the newer ones either, but I didn't want to lose everything else in 2.1, so I've been using then for a while now, and find that I'm quite happy with the results. Don't remember who it was who created them, perhaps he'll chime in.

I don't know the OP's situation, but there are plenty of folks for whom a trip to an "authorized service center" is not feasible, and it's not exactly fair to make a blanket assumption about the skills of every luthier in the world who hasn't sat through an official L6 laying-on-of-hands ceremony. He may have a very simple problem...If it's just a loose solder joint, it's highly unlikely that the guitar will end up "junked". And while I wouldn't give the instrument to any of the residents of the baboon habitat at the Bronx Zoo to work on, for someone who knows their way around a soldering iron and volume pots, I'd say the risk is minimal.

The local powers that be will be here shortly to tell you that only an officially anointed "authorized service center" is capable of fixing the problem. If all you need is a new volume pot, or if its just a loose solder joint somewhere, I would think it should be relatively straightforward fix. If there are other hardware issues, you may have no choice but to find a L6 repair joint to do it. Good luck.

Lol...nothing worse than watching a dream spiral down the crapper. :D Probably would have sounded like $h*t anyway...soryy, couldn't resist. ;)

But it was Jerry's...so it must be good. Where's my wallet? Baffling... :wacko:

lol...at some point the distinction does become philosophical. If a digital tree falls in a digital forest, does it really sound like tubes? :P

Well, I don't much care one way or the other... but I believe the motivation to post things like that is the same thing that drives the masses to constantly announce to the world, through social media status updates, every time they wash the car, go to the bank, or post pictures of the beef with garlic sauce and pork fried rice that they had for lunch. It's a little game we all play. The poster pretends that there's an audience waiting with bated breath for an update on their toenail fungus, and then through an endless series of mostly insincere, and half the time anonymous "likes" , that delusion is reinforced. It's a society-wide psych experiment that we're all performing on ourselves. To what end, I have no idea. I suspect the end result will be a society of fat, near-sighted, agoraphobic narcissists...time will tell. But at the end of the day, I'm really not sure how blowing a digital raspberry by announcing "I'm outta here suckers!", can be considered "helpful". That's why you see the push-back.

Damn, this is entertaining...lol CAGE MATCH!!!

I hear Big Pharma is working on a pill for external validation. Perhaps one day "forum suicides" will be a thing of the past...;)

Ahh...gotcha. Yeah, 13 bucks doesn't buy much anymore.

I've got 11s on all my guitars, including the JTV. I do think it lends some "fullness" to the acoustic models.

And it makes the mundane unnecessarily expensive...

Unless we're talking about a funky electrical/hardware problem (which I would probably not tackle myself), the answer is "not much".

Exactly...one does not need calipers, laser-like precision, or a team of researchers from MIT to set up these guitars. Common sense and a screwdriver will suffice.

Thanks! Me too, lol. :)

No need to mess with wires. Everything is pretty self contained under there. Even the 5-way toggle has its own housing...never seen that before. It's really nothing but removing a bunch of screws.

Tone, no. Playability, yes. Bending is effortless. Whenever I switch back to a guitar with regular frets, the difference is night and day...you can actually hear and feel the string grinding against a normal fret. Not something I had ever noticed before. I'm gonna convert them all, as needed. Even if they didn't feel any different, I'd make the switch anyway, just for the longevity factor. I should have done it years ago.

Yes, neck is a Warmoth. Birdseye maple with abalone inlays. Love it. Warmoth makes really nice stuff. Huge improvement, can't say enough good things about it. Don't know why the pics are rotated...oh well, lol.

Yup, got it from Full Compass. Took about 20 minutes to change. Pretty straightforward. Only tricky part was the model select knob. 1) Remove the strings...I know it's rather obvious, but you never know. ;) 2) Remove volume and tone knobs. 3) Remove all the pickguard screws, including the single coil mounting screws, toggle switch screws, and alt. tuning wheel screws. No need to mess with the humbucker. Don't lose the 4 springs that raise/lower the single coils. 4) Remove the model select knob. This one sits in a black plastic spacer...kinda like a washer with a lip on it. You'll see it once you pull the knob off. The spacer has two small tabs on the underside that fit into corresponding holes in the pickguard, to keep it in place. There was a small amount of adhesive as well, which made it necessary to poke through the holes from the back to pop the spacer off. Do it gingerly, or you might crack it. I did not find it necessary to use any adhesive attaching it to the new pickguard. Once the knob is back on, it stays in place just fine. Oddly, once the model select knob is off, the shaft will spin forever in either direction. The stop is on the knob itself, and on mine anyway, the knob can only go back on one way...so it didn't matter that I had turned the shaft, but who knows if they're all the same? So I'd just pay attention to what model you're on before you remove it, and avoid turning the shaft until everything is back together. 5) Slap on the new pickguard, and screw everything back on. Not really much to it.

The white one was boring me...

Walmart is selling guitar amps from a company who's name I can pronounce? That's one of the Four Horsemen, isn't it? ;)